5. Moreover, to give a fuller demonstration of this point, I will
add one thing more. It is the compulsion of those who calumniate me
which forces me to exhibit a singular and special mystery of my own
church. It is this, that, while all the churches thus hand down the
Sacrament of the Creed in the form which, after the words “the
remission of sins” adds “the resurrection of the
flesh,” the holy church of Aquileia (as though the Spirit of God
had foreseen the calumnies which would be spoken against us) puts in a
particular pronoun at the place where it delivers the resurrection of
the dead; instead of saying as others do, “the resurrection of
the flesh,” we say “the resurrection of this
flesh.” At this point, as the custom is at the close of the
Creed, we touch the forehead of this flesh with the sign of the cross,
and with the mouth of this flesh, which we have so touched, we confess
the resurrection; that so we may stop up every entrance through which
the poisoned tongue might bring in its calumnies against us. Can any
confession be fuller than this? Can any exposition of the truth be more
perfect? Yet I see that this remarkable provision of the Holy Spirit
has been of no profit to us. Evil and busy tongues still find room for
cavilling. Unless, says he, you name the members one by one, and
expressly designate the head with its hair, the hands, the feet, the
belly, and that which is below the belly, you have denied the
resurrection of the flesh.